From the summer of 2020 through summer 2024 – DICI has evolved from a quarantined 17-year-old free-styling rhymes and mastering the Pro Tools rig in his bedroom to an internationally renowned, genre-transcendent hip-hop and pop star with nearly 120K TikTok followers, an aggregate 7.5 million streams and views on Spotify and YouTube and a prolific stylistically diverse discography that includes his 2021 debut EP and 18 popular singles released from 2021-23. To date, he has charted two songs on Billboard: “Beautiful Collision” (which reached #44) and “Eye to Eye” (#98), both dropped in late 2022.
The now 21-year-old multi-talented Italian born. Milan and Miami raised musical hyphenate (singer, songwriter, rapper, producer, label entrepreneur) releases the official music video for “i run”.
Testament to DICI’s growing global impact and influence,
the artist has received impressive airplay on pop stations throughout the UK, where he toured for the first time in 2023. His first jaunt was a six-city tour that included performances at 1500-2500 seat theatres in Leicester, Hull, Cambridge, Warrington, Reading and London. Two months later, he returned to England for a wild run of 46 shows over 30 days at smaller venues and festivals, including LeeStock Music Festival in Sudbury (headlined by Natalie Imbruglia) and Wilkestock Festival in Hertford.
Remarkably, instead of performing some of his earlier popular streaming hits, the artist’s seven song set included his most recently penned songs, including some yet to be released.
“I feel like the songs I’ve been writing are at a higher level and more diverse,” DICI says. “I’ve been moving away from the straight hip hop that I started with, and am now writing and singing more pop songs – and other music I feel is between those two styles. Performing the newest material shows both my longtime fans and those hearing me for the first time where I’m at creatively now. Playing in front of large crowds truly validates how I’ve been evolving as an artist, and has given me more confidence. That confidence level has really inspired me to further develop my craft as a songwriter. It’s opened up my artistry and my ability to tell my story the way I want to tell it.”
